Improved quasi-orthogonal codes through constellation rotation

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 332-335

  Sharma, Naresh ^a   Papadias, Constantinos B ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Multiple antennas; Space time codes; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUASI-ORTHOGONAL CODES; QUATERNARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SPACE TIME CODES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0037721667     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.809753     Document Type: Letter

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